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Lester's intense anxiety when Kendale forcibly took the keys from him and disappeared can better be imagined than described. In vain he pleaded with Halloran to release him, offering every kind of inducement, but the man was inexorable.
"Once, only, are we aware of our daughter's having met this young man. Since then, she has gone out but rarely, and has not been from home a single evening, unless in our company; so that the broad charge of association with Clement is unfounded, and has had its origin in a malignant spirit." "I understand it all, now, clearly," replied the lady. "Mrs. Halloran is a woman of no principle.
'Are you telling me, Mrs Halloran, that this boy of yours is the thief who stole my pigeons? Mr Pinsent, looking at the boy with a magisterial frown, began to wish he had not been quite so hasty in sending round the town sergeant. 'You did, didn't you, Mike? appealed Mrs Halloran. And Mike, looking straight before him, grunted something which might pass for an admission.
Lord Colambre expressed a wish to see this extraordinary personage; and Lady Dashfort, to cover her former design, and, perhaps thinking absence might be as effectual as too much propinquity, immediately offered to call upon the officers in their way, and carry them with Heathcock and Lord Colambre to Halloran Castle.
Halloran was on his feet now, and evidently anxious to terminate the interview. "There are two sides to every case, of course, and justice is not always done. However, that really makes no difference in this instance. The findings of a military tribunal are as conclusive as those of any court of law, and it is not for us to question them.
Those who knew Lester Armstrong said the great fortune which had come to him would not spoil him. There was one who read this account with amazed eyes, and that was Halloran. "Great God!" he muttered, his hands shaking, his teeth chattering. "Kendale told me that Armstrong was taken to the hospital in a precarious condition and died there." He made all haste to Kendale's lodgings.
He dropped an eye to the Andrew Halloran. "He been talkin' to ye?" he asked cheerfully. "He told me you borrowed of him " "Now, don't you mind that a mite. Andy don't. He's proud as Punch to hev me owe him suthin'. He reminds me of it every day or two. All I mind about is your frettin' and takin' on so. If you'd jest be easy in your mind, we'd have a reel comf'tabul time with the kittens and all."
From that moment she met with silence nearly every thing that her mother said. Early on the next day Mary Halloran called for Jane, as she was regularly in the habit of doing. Mrs. Leland purposely met her at the door, and when she inquired for Jane, asked her, with an air of cold politeness, to excuse her daughter, as she was engaged. "Not engaged to me," said Mary, evincing surprise.
His eyes followed the whiff of smoke kindly. "You kep' him a good deal, off and on. He must 'a' e't considerable," said Andrew. "And now he's up and lost your boat for you." He glanced complacently at the Andrew Halloran swinging at anchor. "You'll never see her again," he said. He gave a final toss to the net. "Mebbe not," said Uncle William. "Mebbe not."
They arrived at Halloran Castle a fine old building, part of it in ruins, and part repaired with great judgment and taste. When the carriage stopped, a respectable-looking man-servant appeared on the steps, at the open hall-door. Count O'Halloran was out fishing; but his servant said that he would he at home immediately, if Lady Dashfort and the gentlemen would be pleased to walk in.
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